A structured Clean Tech career-readiness cohort, run with your advisors.
Your students work through four steps, from understanding their strengths to interviewing with partner employers. Working Clean Tech professionals lead the sessions. Your advisors stay at the center of the relationship with students.
Who it's for
- Career services teams that want industry contact without building it from scratch
- First-generation and student-success programs
- Workforce and academic leaders adding practical career preparation
The four steps
- Step 1InsightStudents take Aptitude Compass and debrief with an advisor. Each student then chooses the Clean Tech areas they want to explore.Led by: Your advisor, with GradNextSteps
- Step 2Work skillsSessions led by industry experts matched to the cohort's chosen areas: how the work is done, what the roles involve, and the skills employers look for.Led by: Industry experts · in person, virtual or hybrid
- Step 3Employer interviewsPartner employers interview shortlisted students for internships, based on their skills record and how they did in the program.Led by: Partner employers and industry experts
- Step 4 · optionalResume helpOne-to-one resume support for students who need it.Led by: GradNextSteps
Step 1: Aptitude Compass
Reasoning
Verbal, numerical, logical and spatial reasoning, each with a band (Strong, Moderate or Developing) based on fixed cutoffs, not percentiles.
Interest patterns
The student's top three of six patterns, from Realistic to Conventional.
What matters at work
Six work values ranked by importance, from achievement to independence.
How they work
Five aspects of working style. There's no better or worse end.
Fields and occupations
Study fields and occupations to explore, based on O*NET data.
Each student discusses their report with their advisor, then chooses the Clean Tech areas they want to explore. We use those choices to match industry experts to later sessions; that matching is our judgment, not a result of the assessment. Your team sees a cohort snapshot (reasoning bands, common interest patterns and work values), never individual scores.
Aptitude Compass isn't a certified psychometric test, and it isn't specific to Clean Tech. Results are a starting point for a conversation, not a verdict on what a student can or should do.
Have an access code from your college?
Takes about 30 minutes. For students aged 18 and over.
How we match experts
For NextStep Ready, we match Clean Tech industry experts from our vetted expert network. Each one is reviewed and has agreed to take part, and how. For every session, we choose an expert based on the areas your students picked.
Your team sees who's been matched and can ask for a change at any time. You never have to find, vet or schedule experts yourself.
- Solar project development
- Energy storage
- Grid operations
- EV charging and electrification
- Building efficiency
- Climate finance
- Energy policy
- Clean-tech manufacturing
What your team sees
- The cohort's progress through the four steps
- Upcoming sessions and each matched expert's profile
- Participation by student
- A summary of the cohort's Aptitude Compass results
- A way to request a different expert
What we do
- Find and vet the industry experts
- Match them to your students' chosen areas
- Schedule and run every session
- Arrange interviews with partner employers
What your college does
- Name one advisor as the main contact
- Choose the students, up to 5 for the pilot
- Provide a room or a video link for sessions
Pricing
What we never promise
We prepare students for the workplace and arrange interviews with partner employers. We don't promise jobs, internships, a number of interviews or any hiring outcome. We don't ask for grades, transcripts or other college records.